found this in my inbox this morning
I suggest you take down http://www.berkeleynoise.com/celesteh/podcast/ that noise seriously sucks and is pretty much good for NOTHING but giving someone a head ache!!!
I would put it’s “usefulness” at the same level as Yoko Ono sounds… USELESS !
George
a musician with respect for real music
the subject is: ‘Noise ? yep… pure sh*t.’ which, coincidentally, is the title of my next album
‘Podcasting’ refers to a sort of audio blogging. The podcaster posts a piece of audio to the internet and subscribers automagically download it via itunes or another client program. It’s a good way for people to keep up with your audio output.
For Safari/iTunes users, this is really easy. Click on the RSS icon in the podcast you want (this is on the right hand side of the URL address field). Safari goes into feed reading mode. On the right hand side, there’s a link that says “subscribe in iTunes.” Click that and you’re good.
If you use another browser, find the URL of the feed and copy it. Open iTunes. Go to the advanced menu. Select subscribe to podcast. Paste in the URL. Hit ok. You’re done.
Usually, people post MP3s. You can record audio with software called Audacity. This is very handy software, which can also be used for normalization. (This means making the recording as loud as possible – a good thing or it will sounds really quiet in a playlist.) It is also possible to use Audacity as an MP3 converter. iTuens and other software can also be used for that. I convert audio to be 160 kbps stereo. If you are just recording your voice talking, it possible to a much lower quality conversion and still be totally understandable.
If you have your own server, you can ask your sysadmin for WordPress. This is blogging software, which is easy to install. It requires SQL. Your sysadmin or hosting company can help you with that. There are many templates that you can use to change the way it looks. I host my entire professional website with wordpress.
That’s it.
You can sign up for a free blog at http://wordpress.com. Do everything just as above, but your dashboard is at their site instead of yours. Or, you can pay to have them host your mp3s for you.
You need to have a store account, which usually requires you to submit a credit card. There are ways around this, for example, by joining the developer network. Launch iTunes. Click on the podcast section. Click on the podcast directory. Scroll down. There’s a link that says “submit a podcast.”
I swear, this is all really, really easy. Leave questions in the comments.
I made major changes to my podcast / artist website. Looking for feedback. Also, if anybody wants to give me a short testimonial about commissioning something, that might be handy. I don’t know if the newer layout is visually better, but the old one was way too inflexible. I think the home page is a little busy, but it’s time for bed and not time to hack.
I was late last night in the analog studio at school, until they kicked me out. I was busily running 4 channels of audio, 1 at a time, though the gigantic reverb plate which lurks in the attic of the conservatory. It’s easy to overdo it with the plate and also it has a distinct resonant frequency. When I was thrown out, I was considering my options for frequency shifting. AM, Ring Modulation, FM, Vocoding, waveshaping. So many possibilities, so little time. The nice thing about analog is that even when what you get is all wrong, at least you’re making sound, and that’s good.
So I played my work-in-progress in class today and the teacher decided to show us how to burn a DVD, because it’s a 5.1 (or really, 4.1, since I don’t use the center, but do have a sub track). He said it sounded done. He’s the expert. It’s done. I want, therefore, to post it to my podcast, but all I have at home is a DVD and no software that will rip the audio from it. Even when I go back to school, I’m not totally sure how to encode 6 channels of audio for podcasting. MPEG4? AAC? Is there a way to save the sub and send it quietly to left and right if and only if the listener has only a 2 channel setup?
I need to find some calls for multichannel works and drop this in the mail.